10 years later, Stafford Clark returned to Buttershawe with a team of actors and researchers to create a new piece of theatre. 'A State Affair' documents the changes in the area since Dunbars death. Conditions havent improved. Dunbars daughter Lorraine;
'If mum wrote the play today Rita and Sue would be on smack and crack and working the red light district, bob would be injecting heroin.'
Clio Barnard-a film maker and contemporary of Dunbar, local too, was intrigued by these words and became curious to find out what became of Andreas 3 children in the 20 years since her death. Artangel funded her project. She interviewed her children and neighbours and enacted scenes from The Arbor in the open air.
Dunbars' sister still occupies the house next door to Andreas, Pamela has mixed feelings of respect for her sister and the attention her work brought to the area causing trouble again. Andrew, Dunbars son watches on as his childhood is reenacted, 'It's freaking me out a bit.'
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